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TEN SECONDS?

Damn, lets start murdering people with balls so Jason will realize this is a mistake. I'd have said 2 seconds was nice.

You are one very special snowwflake if you do this and you should feels disgusted. People won't always raise you, it's not their obligation. Grow the fuck up.

Jason stated something along the lines of he being able to change it but would need to take some time to do it.

We should murder anyone trying to kill other lines tbh. This is one of the main reasons we don't have bigger civs and longer lasting cities at the very least.

The game difficulty changes a lot throughout the techtree and it is true there is a clash between more grindy/survivalist players and rp ones. I disagree that social skills and creativity are a characteristic of rpers only though. If that was the case you wouldn't see pein building cute pens and tarr doing mad science. Social skills might help survivability on occasion and that is why better communication is indeed necessary. Honestly, I believe the solution for these different issues is making the game harder for pros and slightly easier/give more easy rewarding tasks for new players. This way pros remain engaged at all moments in many different activities and learning players and roleplayers can still contribute while having fun.

By each civilization state i suggest:

Eve camps: Eveing is easy but very grindy and your success extremely dependant of other players. I don't believe it is very rewarding for roleplayers forcing a story but the crisis generated by wrong choises in this era can be quite entertaining for both eve and kids, and pros and newbies. Animals, getting lost and starving are the main reason new people die in this stage while pros mostly never die while eveing and keep chaining for days, only occasionally dying to a hiden snake/wolf. To make it easier on newbies I think more single use food items like onions, wild carrots and burdocks could exist and more depth be added to the map with rare resources and landmarks existing, giving players a better understanding of the map. If all this new stuff translates into later tech this would be great. To make it harder on pros I suggest making animals step on items, fixing a very know exploit that only really helps pros.

Pre-sheep farming: Very grindy stage for pros. Finding iron, making pottery, smithing, upgrading wells, all can be done by all sorts of players but a pro will do every one of these tasks fast (except iron gathering) if the town is being well mantained by others. Newer players actually do important jobs in this era since berry farming and pie making here are a good way to help pros keep doing their work. I would like to see newer players in this stage of the game being pushed more to the world outside towns by giving entertaining tasks for them to do. Stuff like trapping rabbits, hunting animals for food, collecting eggs, stuff that give you a neat reward if you go out and grab it. As long as these are designed to be fun tasks people will do it more than berry farming. This way people may even learn the importance of other tasks like mining and getting lamb for compost. Pros alrerady have a hard time here so maybe branching up a bit the tech so they can have options in case their 30 minute walk for iron hasn't been successful.

Sheep era: Composting is easy, but it sucks that you gotta do it if you want to progress. See, the problem with compost is that it is wasted if people only use it for food. You need rope for tech, and a lot of it actually. If you have no compost being made, maybe lacking some of the crops needed for it, you'll have to work your butt off to get to a point where you have enough compost that farming is sustainable. And then do extra to progress. Sure you can gather rope in the wilds but that is after you have a horse-cart and newer players will most likely blow this task horrendously. At one point we should get better rope making in this game and I think it should be in sheep era. Another techbranch of rope making items would be another task for pros to strive while alowing others to use compost for their projects. This is the last stage in which water is an issue. Once you have a newcomen pump and many trees or the oil pumps you are safe from water shortages. The last patches have made this era much more entertaining already without solving the compost grind. It's also quite the same for newbs as it was before the changes. Newer mechanics like reasonable food decay, inorganic fertilizers and more clothing/apparel options would help sheep era become a more diverse experience.

Machine era: I havent played much with these features but this era features reasonable water production, huge iron sinks and considerable need for rubber and oil producing. Its a lot of hardwork to get to distillers, lathes and diesel pumps. Cars are a tough cookie too but they aren't that much better than horses so i don't think pros would bother with them long term (if the game didn't change). This whole meta is quite new but it adds cars to roleplayers which gotta be a fun thing, and A LOT of work for grinders. Newer players might feel lost with all this hard tech but the clear differences from sheep era might count for a sense of progress to them. I believe this era is fine as it is, we should strive to make earlier eras more interesting (again) to give this stage more challenges to overtake.

Beyond: As new tech is added and our needs covered this game will also have to get more dimensions. Should we always make tools to make soil and make soil to make food? Why not get food in the wild if someone cut all wheat and let all carrots seed? Why not make imestone into fertilizer through a chemical process? Why not plant more trees if you havent found oil? Why not build heaters to fix that snow patch in the middle of the town? Why not make inseticides to kill mosquitoes? Why not make bear attacks and homes more interesting by making animals step in stuff?

These are the very reasons I think mosquitoes need some sort of counter, just a labour intensive one to produce. repellants are nice mid game but we could really get inseticides as a late game tech. Its not like jungles without bananas are straight up OP, heat helps a lot but small deserts do that too.

here you see two good players, a smart eve and a smart eve kid that actually stays around. kudos.

Pretty much, yeah. Except i'd say their range could b infinite like bells.

That's very damn likely. Either this or make diesel much more efficient and have some other uses. Maybe even add upgraded versions on some of the other machines.

Tech just for the sake of tech is boring and Jason knows this, hopefully when he's layed the groundwork well enough we'll start branching on oil techtree. I still think we could've gotten more steam technology actually, so it'd would really feel like different villages were progressing as a whole.

People have suggested paint brushes before and I think it would be a good way to make your paint have more uses.

All that you describe will be fun for the first 2 or 3 times at best. Forceful solutions for more diverse game experience always result in the opposite. When you start setting timers for specific civilization ending events you make sure they are inevitable. Civs dying because of no girls is very common but it's not guaranteed this will happen.

From jungles to machines, all updates have made more late game content without making early game harder. Water nerfs don't actually hit sucessful eve camps and bananas even help them. Sheep era villages are the ones hit the most since they need to use axes, shovels and hoes a lot while still needing a lot of iron to go higher iin tech. Iron nerfs was the last update that made it tougher for eves (and banana nerf but that was a very necessary fix).

We have been stuck in sheep era for months with only cows and tree farming shifting the meta, always settling in desert/grass/swamp and pilling iron for no use. All that came since iron nerfs is to prevent this exact situation without killing early gens, slowly but well thought out, I don't see how dropping this project benefits the game in the slightly.

its hard to see the effects of city communication until you revive a city by eve chaining + bell and spawn there later to find a library with your eve name but i assure you, its priceless.